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Channel, Phase Noise, and Frequency Offset in OFDM Systems: Joint Estimation, Data Detection, and Hybrid Cramér-Rao Lower Bound
IEEE Transactions on Communications (2014)
  • Omar Hazim Salim, University of Southern Queensland
  • Ali A. Nasir, Australian National University
  • Hani Mehrpouyan
  • Wei Xiang, University of Southern Queensland
  • Salman Durrani, Australian National University
  • Rodney A. Kennedy, Australian National University
Abstract
Oscillator phase noise (PHN) and carrier frequency offset (CFO) can adversely impact the performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, since they can result in inter carrier interference and rotation of the signal constellation. In this paper, we propose an expectation conditional maximization (ECM) based algorithm for joint estimation of channel, PHN, and CFO in OFDM systems. We present the signal model for the estimation problem and derive the hybrid Cramér-Rao lower bound (HCRB) for the joint estimation problem. Next, we propose an iterative receiver based on an extended Kalman filter for joint data detection and PHN tracking. Numerical results show that, compared to existing algorithms, the performance of the proposed ECM-based estimator is closer to the derived HCRB and outperforms the existing estimation algorithms at moderate-to-high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In addition, the combined estimation algorithm and iterative receiver are more computationally efficient than existing algorithms and result in improved average uncoded and coded bit error rate (BER) performance.
Keywords
  • OFDM,
  • channel estimation,
  • phase noise,
  • frequency offset,
  • Bayesian,
  • hybrid Cramér-Rao lower bound
Publication Date
September, 2014
Publisher Statement
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Citation Information
Omar Hazim Salim, Ali A. Nasir, Hani Mehrpouyan, Wei Xiang, et al.. "Channel, Phase Noise, and Frequency Offset in OFDM Systems: Joint Estimation, Data Detection, and Hybrid Cramér-Rao Lower Bound" IEEE Transactions on Communications Vol. 62 Iss. 9 (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hani_mehrpouyan/1/